What is your role with Coastland?
I am co-founding Coastland with Steve Sjogren and functioning as the Lead Pastor.
How did you connect with the Coastland vision?
Over 10 years ago Steve was one of my doctrinal professors at the Beeson International Center for Church Leadership & Biblical Preaching. Way back then we started dreaming of […]
I have been blessed to partner with a few of the leading “outward” movements on the planet – the Christian & Missionary Alliance, Mosaic, and CoastlandTampa. All three invest in risk-takers. This has been a year of risk and transitions as well as a year of some pretty good misfires. In August I relocated my […]
Our Community of Faith, Love, & Hope is geared up for the month of Advent. It seems that every year we are drawn back to Matthew’s account.
In the first six verses of the New Testament [Matthew 1:1-6] we find the names of four women. Their names are Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. A number of […]
Over the past few years I have reached a humbling conclusion – the typical church has huge walls. Not the type with brick and mortar, but just as effective in keeping those outside out. They also keep those inside from seeing those on the outside. Such walls are formed and cemented through extreme emotional and […]
Last month I posted this on MosacRC’s blogg and neglected to post it here.ÂÂ
Our community of faith. love, and hope moved into the new community center yesterday! What an amazing place! The atmosphere was great and energy was high. We also began our new spiritual conversation on living a life beyond ordinary. Here are our opening […]
Here is an article I published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin today.
It is hard to believe it has been five years. I was at Newark International Airport on American Airlines Flight #829 on September 11, 2001. It was 8:50am and my plane was still sitting at the gate. Our pilot made an unusual and […]
Posted this on the MosaicRC Blog!
It was published on August 12, 2006 in The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
John Edgar Caterson, MRC Lead Pastor
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine wrote his son a series of letters on character. Recently, I paraphrased his thoughts on integrity and wrote a letter to my eleven-year-old son.
My […]
